Corporate Social Responsibility and Beyond

Corporate Social Responsibility became a good business instead of ethical obligation, because companies and experts found that stakeholders appreciated responsibility and its communication, and it could be demonstrable in profit as well. CSR gained a ¿superior¿ goal, increasing profit. The mainstream economics first attacked it, but afterwards degraded it to be a tool of profit-making. This is the CSR¿s ¿story of success¿. I evidence with theoretical and empirical arguments that we should go beyond CSR, construe a more truthful realization of business ethics¿ principles: values-driven business. I present two complementing researches, which show a complete picture of corporate responsibility. The first one maps the situation of CSR in Hungary, the second one explores the way to get beyond it.